“There are two parts to this, the belt and the road, and it’s a little confusing. The belt is the physical road, which takes one from here all the way through Europe to somewhere up north in Scandinavia. That is the physical road. What they call the road is actually the maritime Silk Road, in other words, shipping lanes, essentially from here to Venice. Therefore it’s very ambitious—potentially ambitious—covering about 65 percent of the world’s population, about one-third of the world’s GDP, and about a quarter of all the goods and services the world moves,” sabi ni Sneader.

“China is seeing a bit of a slowing down in its growth. A lot of people are saying that that’s part of the next growth wave of Chinese exports, which is that it’s going to have its influence and its infrastructure build-out in many of these countries, most of them emerging markets, in lots of things that frankly have fueled the very high growth in China over the past decade,”sabi ni Ngai.

“What remains to be seen is if that can be replicated in many of these countries in the next ten years. That is very significant. Because many of these countries are really lacking in this infrastructure. I remember when I take groups of delegates into China; they always marvel at the trains, the railway stations, the airports, and all that, which frankly is a bit of a miraculous creation in the past two decades,” sabi ni Ngai.

“Insofar as the drugs, I think that somehow we were negligent in counter-checking during the first report. So kay Espino, and even to Sison at kay Baraan, yung kapatid, huwag yung Undersecretary, sabit talaga yun sa Bilibid. I would like to apologize to you publicly. I would say now, i am very sorry. Trabaho ko yan, part of my territory, I cannot be perfect, sometimes, you are correct when you say that life is never fair,” sabi ni PDuterte nitong September 27 sa inspection sa suspected shabu laboratory in Arayat, Pampanga.